Making ‘Hobbs and Shaw’ the Action Movie Event of the Summer, With David Leitch | Interview

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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‘Hobbs and Shaw’ director David Leitch joins to talk about the challenges of adapting a successful franchise, his work on 'John Wick,' and the state of the action-comedy genre. Host: Sean Fennessey Guest: David Leitch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:04.6	Up on our site, the Ringer is breaking down the 40 best singles and albums from 1999,
0:09.5	covering Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, Maria Carey, and tons more.
0:13.8	And to accompany that piece, we filmed our staffers discussing what they agreed and disagreed
0:17.9	with from the article and debated what should have won.
0:21.0	You can read the piece on the Ringer.com and watch the video at youtube.com slash the
0:25.5	Ringer.
0:30.0	Digging in and finding the human story.
0:33.6	I'm not too concerned yet about the bells and whistles of the action because that's sort
0:38.0	of my thing.
0:39.8	But it's like really what is the human story and how are we going to love these characters
0:43.3	and relate to them for two hours?
0:45.2	I'm Sean Fantasy, Editor-in-Chief of the Ringer, and this is the big picture a conversation
0:54.9	show about the fast and the furious presents Colin Hobbes and Shaw.
1:00.0	That's right, Hobbes and Shaw is upon us.
1:02.2	I'm very excited to have a conversation with the film's director David Leach today.
1:07.1	David Leach has made a couple of really important movies over the last couple of years.
1:10.7	Chief among them, John Wick.
1:12.6	If you're a listener of the show you know that I had the director of John Wick 2 and John
1:15.9	Wick 3 chats to Helski on this show earlier this summer.
1:19.3	And he and David Leach collaborated together to make John Wick 1.
1:23.8	A tricky thing about that is David Leach did not get credit as the director on that movie.
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